Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo could become certified for IBM Server Hardware

Well i also was very surprised to become this offering from IBM. I
tried this for a long time with very less success :(

All i can say is that i talked to IBM's Senior IT Architct for
Principal Linux Services and he told me that theres a chance to do
this. Of cause he didn't said something about a gurantee that IBM
really would do so. But anyway i think it's definitively worth
trying.


Omkhar Arasaratnam <omkhar@g.o> schrieb am 04/05/2005 03:32:19
PM:

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> daniel.kerwin@×××××××.de wrote:
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> > First of all there are a lot of questions to answer:
> >
> > - Who can do the certification?
> > - What must be done to become certified?
> > - What hardwaretypes will IBM offer?
> > - Will the hardware stay at IBM or somewhere else?
> >
> > Aside all IBM customers should request support for Gentoo from
IBM
> > because they'll only take this serious if many customers request
> > support.
> >
> Being an IBM employee in my day job I can provide some insight
here.
>
> NO
>
> ;-)
>
> I have an extremely hard time believing that IBM would endorse a
> community supported distro. The only distros that IBM supports are
> corporate backed (RedHat, Suse, Turbo). So unless Gentoo is under
> going a major change in the near future.
> That said - I'm frequently wrong ;-) But hey, let us know what you
> find out
>
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> omkhar@g.o - http://dev.gentoo.org/~omkhar
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